Over the weekend of May 2nd, 2009, BoardEffect^® is being upgraded with new functionality and improvements to existing features, including:

1. Meeting Books / Board Manual

• Dynamic Template: Administrators will now be able to create their own dynamic  templates to fully customize their board’s Meeting Books and Board Manual
• Content Compilation: Administrators will now be able to assemble each Meeting Books and the Board Manual into a single PDF document.
• Password Protection: Adds an additional layer of security to Meeting Books and the Board Manual in PDF format

2. Committee Workroom

• Meeting Books for Committees: Full Meeting Book functionality now included in each Committee Workroom
• Categories for Committee files: Allows committee administrators to tag documents as belonging to a particular category, to enhance organization

3. Advanced User Access Levels

• Role-based user access levels: This added feature will enable administrators to further define what a BoardEffect^® user can or cannot access. This additional layer will allow you to open your portal to users with limited access levels, such as non-board committee members, external auditors or volunteers.

4. My Account

• Private folder for individual board members’ notes: Individual board members have their own completely private folder to store documents, notes and information.

BoardEffect® will provide a webcast demonstrating these upgrades in the Administration section of your portal a week prior to the launch. In addition, live briefings will be offered to administrators in May and June to give you an opportunity to ask questions.

Interested in learning more?

For more information, please contact BoardEffect® toll free
at 1-866-672-2666.

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BoardEffect is proud to announce the addition of Sonia J. Stamm as the newest member of our team.  Sonia Stamm brings twenty years of experience in leadership development, training, and management consulting within the nonprofit, service, and technology arenas.  Committed to supporting the evolution of mission-based organizations, Sonia has worked with a wide range of nonprofit and for-profit enterprises in the areas of governance, leadership transition and succession, and organizational effectiveness.   In 2008, she established The Stamm Consultancy to help nonprofit and entrepreneurial clients build more cohesive organizations.    

As BoardEffect Consultant, Sonia will work with users in maximizing and assessing BoardEffect's impact on organizations.  She also will concentrate on building strong relationships with prospective and existing clients to ensure that BoardEffect continues to enhance the governance capacity of nonprofit and for-profit boards of directors.

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BoardEffect^® to write book chapter on eGovernance

This spring, BoardEffect^® will be authoring a chapter for an upcoming John Wiley and Sons publication, “P2PFundraising: Nonprofit Internet Management Strategies, Tools and Trade Secrets”, scheduled to be released March 2010.  The chapter, entitled, “Egovernance is Good Governance: Improving Board Leadership through Online Technology” will explore the power and promise – as well as the pitfalls – of online board portals and their impact on nonprofit organizations.

As we develop the content for our chapter, BoardEffect^® will be surveying current BoardEffect^® users to learn more about the outcomes of using this board portal. In the coming weeks, BoardEffect^® will be contacting all clients to offer them the opportunity to participate in the survey, and possibly to be featured as a case study. 

Participating clients will have the opportunity to be featured in the book, which promises to be a success! 

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